SCHOOL buildings in Caerphilly will undergo more than £1.2 million-worth of repair work this year.

Caerphilly council is spending £600,000 from its 2010/11 budget on updating the highest priority schools and a further £605,000 of Assembly funds will be pumped into other schemes.

Among the schools set to benefit from repairs are Blackwood Primary School, which will undergo £50,000-worth of window renewal work, Cefn Fforest Primary, which will have windows replaced in its infants block and flat roofing installed totalling £110,000, and Pantside Primary, which will have windows replaced to the tune of £125,000.

Ty Sign Primary will undergo £125,000 of window renewal work while Blackwood Comprehensive will have £40,000-worth of new walls installed.

The council is currently in the process of calculating how much it will cost to bring schools up to national standards by 2022 and data is being collected from schools on the condition and suitability of the county borough’s buildings.

Funds totalling almost £5.2 million have also been set aside in the council’s budget for other school schemes as part of the education and leisure capital programme for 2010/11.

These include £100,000 on school security, £150,000 on demountable classrooms, £900,000 on refurbishing school kitchens and £450,000 on replacing school boilers.

All-weather sports pitches in Pontllanfraith, Newbridge and Risca will get a £300,000 funding boost while £150,000 will be shared between Risca and Bedwas libraries.

The authority’s education for life scrutiny committee will discuss school buildings and the budget at its meeting at 5pm today.